Pixie Princess

On the ancient Hill of Tara, from whose heights the High Kings once ruled all Ireland, from where the sacred fires in pagan days announced the annual resurrection of the sun, the Easter Tide, where the magic of Patrick prevailed over the magic of the Druids, and where the hosts of the Tuatha De Danann were wont to appear at the great Feast of Samain, to-day the fairy-folk of modern times hold undisputed sovereignty.

And from no point better than Tara, which thus was once the magical and political centre of the Sacred Island, could we begin our study of the Irish Fairy-Faith. Though the Hill has lain unploughed and deserted since the curses of Christian priests fell upon it, on the calm air of summer evenings, at the twilight hour, wondrous music still sounds over its slopes, and at night long, weird processions of silent spirits march round its grass-grown raths and forts. It is only men who fear the curse of the Christians; the fairy-folk regard it not.

The Rev. Father Peter Kenney, of Kilmessan, had directed me to John Graham, an old man over seventy years of age, who has lived near Tara most of his life; and after I had found John, and he had led me from rath to rath and then right through the length of the site where once stood the banquet hail of kings and heroes and Druids, as he earnestly described the past glories of Tara to which these ancient monuments bear silent testimony, we sat down in the thick sweet grass on the Sacred Hill and began talking of the olden times in Ireland, and then of the ‘good people’:–

The ‘Good People’s’ Music.–‘As sure as you are sitting down I beard the pipes there in that wood (pointing to a wood on the north-west slope of the Hill, and west of the banquet hall). I heard the music another time on a hot summer evening at the Rath of Ringlestown, in a field where all the grass had been burned off; and I often heard it in the wood of Tara. Whenever the good people play, you hear their music all through the field as plain as can be; and it is the grandest kind of music. It may last half the night, but once day comes, it ends.’

Who the ‘Good People’ are.–I now asked John what sort of a race the ‘good people’ are, and where they came from, and this is his reply:–’People killed and murdered in war stay on earth till their time is up, and they are among the good people. The souls on this earth are as thick as the grass (running his walking-stick through a thick clump), and you can’t see them; and evil spirits are just as thick, too, and people don’t know it. Because there are so many spirits knocking (going) about they must appear to some people. The old folk saw the good people here on the Hill a hundred times, and they’d always be talking about them. The good people can see everything, and you dare not meddle with them. They live in raths, and their houses are in them. The opinion always was that they are a race of spirits, for they can go into different forms, and can appear big as well as little.’

Source: The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries, W.Y.Evans-Wentz, London and New York; H. Froude, 1911

“Give of yourself

as the Angels do,
and wonderful things will come to you.”

- Ramadan

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“When hearts listen
angels sing.”

– Anonymous

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“If you want happiness for an hour — take a nap.
If you want happiness for a day — go fishing.
If you want happiness for a year — inherit a fortune.
If you want happiness for a lifetime — help someone else.”

Chinese Proverb

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“True happiness consists in making happy.”
Bharavi’s Kiratarjuniya, Hindu

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“Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves.”
F. Emerson Andrews

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“All I ask for is an opportunity to prove that money doesn’t buy happiness.”
Anonymous

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“All the happiness you ever find lies in you.”
Anonymous

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“An endurance test for some people is the pursuit of happiness.”
Anonymous

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“For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.”
Anonymous

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“Happiness is like a butterfly.
The more you chase it, the more it eludes you.
But if you turn your attention to other things,
It comes and sits softly on your shoulder.”
Henry David Thoreau

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“Happiness is like jam. You can’t spread even a little without getting some on yourself.”
Anonymous

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“Life in abundance comes only through great love.”
Elbert Hubbard

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“Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.”
Smiley Blanton

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“What force is more potent than love.”
Igor Stravinsky

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“Give love and unconditional acceptance to those you encounter, and notice what happens.”
Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

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“How does one measure time? No, not in day, months, or years. It is measured by the most precious of all things: Love. Without which all beings and things whether brave and/or beautiful would perish.”
Irish Blessing

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“It’s easy to halve the potato where there’s love.”
Irish Proverb

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“Love and eggs are best when they are fresh.”
Russian Proverb

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“Love makes the time pass. Time makes love pass.”
French Proverb

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“No bed is big enough to hold three.’
German Proverb

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“To understand your parents’ love you must raise children yourself.”
Chinese Proverb

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“Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.”
Joseph Addison

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“The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.”
Joseph Addison

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“Love of country is like love of woman — he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.”
Felix Adler

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“I could never love where I could not respect.”
Charlotte Elizabeth Aissé

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“Love is a great beautifier.”
Louisa May Alcott

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“What is lovely never dies,
But passes into other loveliness,
Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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“I was nauseous and tingly all over. . . . I was either in love or I had smallpox.”
Woody Allen

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“I used to think that being nice to people and feeling nice was loving people. Now I know it isn’t. Love is the most immense unselfishness and it is so big I’ve never touched it.”
Florence Allshom

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“Never letting the competition define you. Instead, you have to define yourself based on a point of view you care deeply about.”
Tom Chappel

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“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world right in the eye.”
Helen Keller

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“Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.”
Seneca

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“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”
Mahatma Gandhi

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“I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.” Thomas Paine

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“We acquire the strength we have overcome.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting, but never hit soft.”
Theodore Roosevelt

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“Strength is a matter of a made up mind.”
John Beecher

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“Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.”
Calvin Coolidge

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“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.”
Ralph Sockman

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“What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.”
German Proverb

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“The person who gets the farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.”
Dale Carnegie

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“Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.”
Bruce Barton

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“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn’t at all. You can be discouraged by failure or you can learn from it, So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because remember that’s where you will find success.”
Thomas J. Watson

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“The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.”
Mark Caine

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“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.”
Christopher Morley

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“There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning.”
Christopher Morley

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“When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.”
Orison Swett Marden

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Pity the man who inherits a million and isn’t a millionaire.Here’s what would be pitiful,if your income grew and you didn’t.
Jim Rohn

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“The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.”
Edward Simmons

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“Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s the determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.”
Mario Andretti – race car driver

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“No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.”
Charles Kendall Adams

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“The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.”
Benjamin Disraeli

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“In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein

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“A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.”
Francois Bacon

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Opportunities? They are all around us…there is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.”OrisonSwett Marden

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“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”
Demosthenes

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“We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.”
Anonymous

Beauty Lies Within

Beauty lies within.
How can you tell?
Is it the color of my skin?
The color of my hair?
Tell me so I can search to make sure it’s there.

You walk by with your fancy looks.
Wearing earrings and silver hooks.
Teasing and laughing because I look like dirt.
Why are they laughing? We are all God’s work.

My skin has bumps just like the dusty roads.
But your skin is smooth just like the crescent moon.
Why I’m I cursed with this horrible hair?
Soon I’m going to go bald and they will all stare.

With these wide hips and thunder thighs,
What man would want me? I’m ugly outside.
I’ve tried every trick to make my life perfect.
But can’t you see its just not worth it.

I give up, I can’t do this.
I’m going to accept my looks and be through with it.
Hey beautiful!
Are you talking to me?
You are the beauty I see staring at me.
I guess beauty lies within after all.
Search within yourself its not that small.

Author Unknown

When children lay them down to sleep,
Two Angels come. their watch to keep,
Cover them up. safely and warm,
Tenderly shield them from ev’ry harm.
But when they wake at dawn of day,
The two Angels go away,
Rest from their work of care and love
For God Himself keeps watch above

Unknown

Where Did You Come From ?

Where did you come from, Baby dear?
Out of the everywhere into here.
Where did you get your eyes so blue?
Out of the sky as I came through.
What makes the light in them sparkle and spin?
Some of the starry spikes left in.
Where did you get that little tear?
I found it waiting when I got here.
What makes your forehead so smooth and high?
A soft hand stroked it as I went by,
What makes your cheek like a warm white rose?
I saw something better than anyone knows.
Whence that three-comer’d smile of bliss?
Three angels gave me at once a kiss.
Where did you get this pearly ear?
God spoke, and it came out to hear.
Where did you get those arms and bands?
Love made itself into hooks and hands.
Feet, whence did you come, you darling things?
From the same box as the cherubs’ wings.
Where did you get that dimple so cute,
God touched my cheek as I came through.
How did they all come just to be you?
God thought of me, and so I grew.
But how did you come to us, you dear?
God thought of you, and so I am here.

George MacDonald, 1871

The Angels

May angels rest beside your door,
May you hear their voices sing.
May you feel their loving care for you,
May you hear their peace bells ring.
May angels always care for you,
And not let you trip and fall,
May they bear you up on angel’s wings,
May they keep you standing tall.
May they whisper wisdom in your ear,
May they touch you when you need,
May they remove from you each trace of fear,
May they keep you from feeling greed.
May they fill you with their presence,
May they show you love untold,
May they always stand beside you
And make you ever bold.
May they teach you what you need to know
About life here and here-after.
May they fill you always with their love
And give you the gift of laughter

Author Unknown

Pixies dwell in the twilight, between day and night, between the heavens and the earth, between the conscious and the unconscious… where all things are possible, where our past and future meet, where we meet ourselves coming back. When we dance with the pixies, we dance with the reflections of our true selves and the true nature of the world.

Pixies love to dance. Their music is the most haunting and beautiful ever heard by human ears. Music filled with ancient sadness, as sweet as fresh honey, deeply sensual, with rhythms that are tranquil one moment, demented the next. Because of the limitations of the human ear, it is a music that is more felt then heard.

Pixies often dance in circles, leaving rings of flattened grass to mark the sites of their midnight revels– or circles of toadstools springing up where Pixie feet have trod.

The tradition that there are ruling angels who watch over or govern the twelve signs of the zodiac. They are often to be considered synonymous with the various angels of the months of the year.

Specifically, the angels of the zodiac are as follows:

Aries: Machidiel

Taurus: Asmodel

Gemini: Ambriel

Cancer: Muriel

Leo: Verchiel

Virgo: Hamaliel

Libra: Uriel

Scorpio: Barbiel

Sagittarius: Adnachie

Capricorn: Hanael

Aquarius: Gabriel

Pisces: Barchiel

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The angels who have authority over the seven days of the week-in much the same fashion as there are angels presiding over the planets, hours of the day, and months of the year.

The angels give their particular day their special attention and in legend can be invoked to assist a person in some endeavor or need. The angels and their days are reported in The Magus (1801) by Francis Barrett:

Sunday – Michael

Monday – Gabriel

Tuesday – Camael

Wednesday – Raphael

Thursday – Sachiel

Friday – Anael

Saturday – Cassiel

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Also called tutelary angels, the well established and widely accepted belief that all people (as well as nations, cities, and churches) have a special angel who stays with them, watching over their lives and encouraging their spiritual well-being and happiness.

Many deny that guardian angels could possibly exist, but others state, with the support of Scripture, theological writings, and common sense, that they do live, even if mortals forget or refuse to acknowledge their presense.

The idea of the guardian angel is found in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and the roots of the belief date to the earliest times. St. Thomas Aquinas, one of history’s foremost experts on angels, stated that all people have guardian angels. They remain with one throughout life, staying ever at one’s side even during sin. They foster good works and help to direct the soul to salvation, but only if the soul is so inclined to be led.They cannot influence the will, but they do act upon the senses and project themselves upon the imagination and intellect, discouraging evil acts.

According to Thomas, the angels remain even after death, standing with the soul in heaven; there, however, it does not encourage salvation, but assists in the glimpsing of the final brightness of eternal bliss. All guardian angels are taken from the lowest ranks of the celestial hierarchy, namely the choir of angels.

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